An exhibition celebrating the work of Ernest Farmer, a little known but leading figure in the development of photography as an art form in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
This exhibition celebrates the work of Ernest Howard Farmer (1856-1944), who today is little-known, but was a leading figure in the development of photography as an art form in the late 19th century.
In the early 1890s Ernest created a photograph album containing 111 architectural views and street scenes of places in Wiltshire, Dorset and Somerset. The album also includes several portraits of rural workers, one of which - 'the man with sticks' - would later be reproduced in colour on Led Zeppelin's iconic fourth album in 1971.
The album was purchased by Wiltshire Museum in 2023 and approximately 50 images from it have been reproduced for the exhibition, alongside information about the photographer, his photographic processes, the craft of thatching and, of course, how the image came to be used by Led Zeppelin!
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